Develop your kindergartener's fine motor skills while tracing shadows on a sunny day with this fun kindergarten activity.

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a few riotous rounds of Hot Potato--played with a real potato!

Celebrate Read Across America Day with your kindergartener by playing an alphabet balloon volley game inspired by "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back" by Dr. Seuss.

Do a little kitchen chemistry as you make your own bubble solution and bubble-wand shapes!

Play Number Dash with your preschooler and help them learn to identify numbers, write numbers and learn about organized play.

If you have a young child who loves physical stunts, try making these coffee-can stilts for backyard fun.

Preschoolers need to practice hopping, skipping, and other "gross motor" skills. Why not make it fun by challenging them to move like their favorite animals?

Entertain your next batch of energetic youngsters with a Halloween-inspired candy hunt!

This circle game practices patterning and flexes your child's memory.

Bring the classic game of "Red Rover" up to date with color and shape recognition skills for your child.

This copying game is like a hopped up version of Simon Says, but it lets kids use their bodies to practice patterning, a key skill in early math.

Tell your child you want to work on kindergarten readiness skills and she's not likely to jump up and clap. But turn it into a game and it's a different story.

Play Rock Tic-Tac-Toe, the perfect outdoor game for all ages. Help your child develop thinking skills and get away from the TV!

This scavenger hunt game is simple, but it's fun, and it will arm your children with the directional vocabulary they should master in time for kindergarten.

Build memory and motor skills with this musical movement game!

Kids get in lots of letter learning as they play this fun twist on regular tag, which engages their minds as well as their bodies.

Play a phonics scavenger hunt no matter where you are. This game will have your child sounding out words and finding letter sounds in the objects around them.

In this variation on musical chairs, no one gets kicked "out" of the game -- instead, they get to tell other kids what to do!

Mix fun with basic math in this fun homemade game of ring toss! Make rings out of paper plates and you're ready to play anytime, anywhere!

When it comes to working kids' muscles, nothing beats an obstacle course! Here are some easy ideas for creating your own course at home.

The next time your kids are pent up inside because of bad weather, try hosting a Balloon Olympics!

Have the kids use sidewalk chalk to draw portraits of their family and, in the process, learn about familial relationships.

Celebrate your little one's move to big kid school by throwing a very special graduation party complete with friends, crafts, and lots of energetic fun.